[Foundation-l] Re: London meet: Wikimedia UK discussion

[Kate Turner]

David Gerard wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation:
[ ... comments from discussion about UK foundation ... ]

this sounds quite positive.  i think i noted on the relvant meta page that
i'd be interested in helping, although charities/business isn't something i
have a great deap of experience with...

> Kate: what would be good technically to buy in the UK?

non-US purchasing decisions/planning are a bit up in the air at the moment
as we work out what we're doing with various EU offers (Belnet,
Kennisnet, ...).  the ideal situation would be if we could purchase
equipment in the UK (using UK funds) and ship it to other places in the EU
(initally likely to be Holland or France, but could be elsewhere).  would
this be possible under UK charity law?  moving funds back to the US is
unlikely to be required, even if it were allowed.

i am reluctant at the moment to suggest buying any kind of service within
the UK wrt. hosting, hardware &c.  particularly until we have a production
off-site cluster and know what we need to do, we're unlikely to make good
use of it, and it's not going to be worth the cost. even then it remains to
be seen whether a large number of seperate clusters is worth the
administrative effort.

do we have any idea what sort of money we're looking at from UK donations?

> - d.

kate.

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